Julie Walters

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

Julie Walters

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Julie Walters

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

Julie Walters

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

Julie Walters

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

Julie Walters

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

Julie Walters

I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

Julie Walters

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

Julie Walters

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Julie Walters

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

Julie Walters

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

Julie Walters

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

Julie Walters

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

Julie Walters

I was having my teens in my 30s.

Julie Walters

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Julie Walters

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

Julie Walters

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Julie Walters

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

Julie Walters

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Julie Walters

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Julie Walters